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1902 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

==Incumbents==

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  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn{{cite book|author=Hywel Teifi Edwards|title=The Eisteddfod|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39|date=20 July 2016|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-914-6|pages=39}}

Events

  • 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
  • 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
  • 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
  • 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
  • 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.{{London Gazette |issue=27455 |page=4587 |date=18 July 1902 }}
  • 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.{{cite book|author1=Stanley C. Jenkins|author2=Martin Loader|title=The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1ZpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT148|date=15 March 2015|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-4416-5|pages=148}}
  • 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.{{London Gazette|issue=27460|page=4972|date=1 August 1902}}
  • August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).{{cite book|author=Lewis Cozens |author-link=Lewis Cozens |title=The Vale of Rheidol Railway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4-GAAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Lewis Cozens}}
  • 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
  • date unknown
  • Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.{{cite book|author1=Gareth Elwyn Jones|author2=Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones|title=Modern Wales: A Concise History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_vUx1TtH5AC&pg=PA171|date=28 October 1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-46945-6|pages=171}}
  • 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
  • Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Arts and literature

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  • Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen{{cite book|author1=Edward Wulstan Atkins|author2=Edward Elgar|author3=Sir Ivor Atkins|title=The Elgar-Atkins friendship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZAHAQAAMAAJ|date=26 April 1984|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=978-0-7153-8583-8}}

Sport

  • Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.{{cite web|url=https://www.welshgymnastics.org/about/|title=Welsh Gymnastics - About Us|website=Welsh Gymnastics|access-date=22 January 2019}}
  • Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

Births

  • 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
  • 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993){{cite web|author=Sally Belfrage|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html|archive-date=1 May 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Obituary: Lord Milford - People - News|work=The Independent|date=1993-12-03|access-date=2012-09-03}}{{cbignore}}
  • 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973){{cite web|url=https://glamorgancricketarchives.com/david-evans-bevan/|title=David Evans-Bevan|website=Glamorgan Cricket Archives|access-date=4 March 2024}}
  • 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
  • 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
  • 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966){{Cite DWB|id=s2-LLOY-GEO-1888|title=Lloyd George (family)|author=William Richard Philip George|access-date=14 October 2019}}
  • 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963){{cite DWB|id=s2-PHIL-WAL-1902|title=Phillips, Morgan Walter (1902-1963), general secretary of the Labour Party|author=Mary Auronwy James|year=2001|access-date=25 May 2024}}
  • 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
  • 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979){{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |page=390|publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}
  • 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972){{cite journal |last1=Pocock |first1=David F. |title=Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard 1902–1973: An appreciation |journal=Africa |date=July 1975 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=327–330 |doi=10.1017/S0001972000025456 |s2cid=143722277 |doi-access=free }}
  • 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
  • 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cyril-bence-1550065.html|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-cyril-bence-1550065.html|archive-date=1 May 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Obituary: Cyril Bence|date=8 September 1992|author=Tam Dalyell|website=The Independent|access-date=22 January 2019|author-link=Tam Dalyell}}{{cbignore}}
  • date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

Deaths

  • 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93{{cite journal|journal=Nature|title=John Wanklyn McConnel|volume=109|issue=2747|page=821|date=24 June 1922|doi=10.1038/109821a0|doi-access=free}}
  • 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69{{Cite DNB12 |wstitle= James, James |volume= 2 |page= 361 |last= Thomas |first= Daniel Lleufer |author-link= Daniel Lleufer Thomas |year=1912|short= 1}}
  • 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
  • 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82{{Cite DWB|id=s-RATH-WIL-1819|title=Rathbone, William (1819–1902), philanthropist|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=3 December 2019}}
  • 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73{{Cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-CAR-1828|title=Evans, Alcwyn Caryni (1828–1902), antiquary|author1=Bertie George Charles|author2=Morfudd Nia Jones|access-date=3 December 2019}}
  • 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35348|title=Owen, Robert (1820–1902)|last=Thomas|first=D. L.|author2=rev. Murphy|author3=G. Martin|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access)|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|access-date=9 May 2008}}
  • 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957){{cite web|date=9 May 2003|author=Manish Mishra-Marzetti|url=http://uudb.org/articles/arthurpowelldavies.html|title=A. Powell Davies|website=Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography|access-date=29 March 2022}}
  • 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27461/pages/5062/page.pdf London Gazette, August 1902]
  • 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
  • 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U185254 DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist{{cite book|author1=Frederick Converse Beach|author2=George Edwin Rines|title=The Americana: a universal reference library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4BRAAAAYAAJ|year=1912|publisher=Scientific American compiling department}}
  • 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60{{Cite DWB|last=Griffiths|first=Griffith Milwyn|title=JONES, MARGARET ('Y Gymraes o Ganaan'; 1842-1902) traveller and writer|id=s3-JONE-MAR-1902|access-date=24 February 2021}}
  • 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55{{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-PRI-1847|title=Hughes, Hugh Price (1847–1902), philanthropist|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=3 December 2019}}
  • December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3492028/3492031/81/|title=Death of a Welsh International|date=20 December 1902|publisher=Evening Express - Welsh Newspapers Online - The National Library of Wales|website=newspapers.library.wales|language=en|access-date=2019-03-11}}
  • date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27Stone, David. [https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/H/HewsonJones.htm Jones Hewson] at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 12 February 2007

See also

References

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